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COIMBATORE: At a time when scientists across the globe are researching to develop vaccines to cure Covid, a team of multidisciplinary researchers has come out with a medical hypothesis that platelets could be a reason for lung inflammation in infected patients.<\/p>\n
The alumni of researchers under the guidance of K Sasikala, former head of Zoology department and specialisation in Human Genetics & Molecular Biology in Bharathiar University, currently working in different countries, came together with a mission search for drugs that could fight the infection.<\/p>\n
Similarly, the hypothesis titled 'Platelets to surrogate lung inflammation in COVID-19 patients' published by the same team in the letter to the editor column in an ELSEVIER journal suggests that trials are required to assess the direct interaction of virus-platelets in the host.<\/p>\n
\"By observing reasons for lung inflammation, we predicted that platelets are the ones leading to the condition. CD13 (Human receptor) and HCoV-229E strains are 82 percent similar to SARS-Cov-2, shares similar function to intake virus,\" said Haripriya Kuchi Bhotla (Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy) - specialisation in a dedicated lab for Platelet Disease Biology, one of the main authors of the hypothesis.<\/p>\n
Another author, Murugesh Easwaran said the virus or bacteria is not the sole reason for a person to get infected. \"The defence mechanism in ones body would have supported it,\" he said.<\/p>\n
However, he said the vaccine\/drug might need many clinical and diagnostic factors to achieve its goal as the virulence of Covid-19 is unstable. If the pandemic sustains for another year or two, the vaccine could be devised based on community, he added.<\/p>\n
The mainstream authors are Arun Meyyazhagan, Tanushri Kaul, Balamuralikrishnan B, Manikantan P, Saravanan M and Vijay Anand A.<\/p>\n
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